Teaching CEO’s to be In the Zone
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In the Zone Executive Coaching (ZEC)…
What is it?
In the Zone Executive Coaching (ZEC) is an interactive process between two people (client and coach) with the purpose of developing a profoundly new level of leadership and communication skills. This is accomplished by creating a vision of who you want to be and then resolving All internal conflicts or barriers in the way of making your visions a reality.
What’s it like?
The coaching process is like being interviewed. The skilled coach asks the client as many questions as it takes for the client to get clear about what he or she wants to do. If a client is confused about what options exist, the coach and client create possible options to choose from. The coaching process is usually a combination of skill development and decision-making. A certain amount of each session is spent on developing the skills you want to fine-tune combined with time spent on dealing with whatever issues you are currently facing that need strategy and action.
What is the process?
The Coaching Process involves the following four steps:
STEP ONE: Getting to Know Yourself Better…
The initial step of the ZEC is to better understand yourself in terms of the style and approach that you naturally take toward your interactions with people and your work-related projects along with defining your primary motivation and sense of purpose. Unfortunately, most people have learned numerous ways of doing things that don’t really fit “who they most enjoy being.” This is a major source of internal conflict for people and becomes a primary focus of the Coaching Process.
It’s also important to define what experiences throughout your life have brought you the greatest amount of personal satisfaction. More specifically, we identify the times in your life when you felt the best about yourself and what you were able to accomplish. Then we specify what you were doing and feeling at those times. This creates a peak performance model, which gives you a highly effective guide for making better decisions and life choices.
STEP TWO: Identify Common Barriers to Peak Performance…
Peak Performance Barrier Diagnosis
Issues that can be addressed…
Manifesting Your Vision…
- Have great ideas and visions, but have trouble implementing.
- Don’t have a formula for manifesting visions/goals consistently.
- There is hesitation or resistance to committing to what you really want.
- Feel like you are too busy with routine work to focus on your visions.
Motivational…
- You know what you want to do, but get overwhelmed with all that needs to be done.
- Don’t feel you are putting your strengths to their best use.
- Have had periods of considerable motivation and would like to get that back.
- Would like the ability to suspend all resistance, doubt, and other forms of negativity.
Communication (Self-promotion)…
- Would like to be more articulate at communicating your vision and ideas.
- Would like to be more skilled at selling your visions and ideas…
- Not getting the level of commitment and positive action you want from your team.
- Not getting the level of commitment and positive action you want from potential clients.
- Would like to be a more confident and articulate speaker.
- Would like more confidence in promoting your ideas in social situations.
Organizational…
- Difficulty prioritizing work, everything seems important.
- Difficulty delegating work.
- Find that it takes a lot of energy to stay organized.
- Difficulty finding time to do the most important tasks with all that needs to be done.
Emotional…
- Find it difficult to shift back to a positive state of mind after a negative occurrence.
- Find that you are more easily upset over little things than you used to be.
- You have negative thoughts and/or feelings you would like not to have.
- Feel stuck on a plateau and can’t seem to get to the next level.
Self-Esteem Related…
- Find it difficult to say “no” to people; find yourself doing things you don’t really want to do.
- Find it difficult to walk away from business or situations that don’t feel right.
- Find that you have less and less time for yourself and/or family.
- You would like to trust your instincts more, but there can be an internal conflict about what to trust and taking the required ‘leap of faith.’
STEP THREE: Develop Strategies Around Diagnosed Barriers…
The third step is to develop strategies around any barriers that we mutually agree need attention. This is a process of creating new approaches to certain aspects of your business behavior to better fit your personal style and overall strengths. The focus here is to get your approaches to the key aspects of your business to be more effective and eliminate internal conflict.
STEP FOUR: Implementation of New Strategies and Follow-Up…
The fourth step is to put the new strategies into action and observe the results. From here we modify and make corrections to come up with the most effective approaches that feel right to you. This step takes the form of conversations and assignments that will best assist you in creating new habits.
Unique Qualities of the Coaching Process…
- The pace we go in dealing with whatever issues you may choose to work on is up to you. Whatever we do must feel right to you.
- The positive energy that comes from determining what course of action feels right is incredibly empowering, regardless of what you are trying to accomplish.
- You will see immediate results. Once you determine what feels right in any situation, you will feel a sense of commitment and a drive to take action.
Is the Coaching Process for you?
I believe we each have the answers to our challenges in life somewhere within ourselves…they just may not be in our conscious awareness yet. And, these answers are often not easy to get at for a couple of reasons.
Have you ever noticed how difficult it is to get someone to just listen to you (so you can hear what you have to say) and not instantly start to tell you what they would do if they were you? Since they aren’t you, their perspective may not help much. This information is being offered with good intention, but is limited in terms of helping you determine what course of action really feels right to you. Hiring a skilled coach is hiring a professional who knows how to listen and what questions to ask to keep you processing until you get at your answer.
Often people think they should be able to solve the challenges of life without assistance from anyone else. Again, the problem is that these answers may be hard to get at by yourself. Have you ever experienced going around and around on an issue and not being able to determine a course of action? The answers to our most difficult challenges in life are in our intuitive feelings. If we could “figure out” effective solutions to all our dilemmas, we would have done so by now.
I like to assure potential clients that they will discover the answers to their challenges in life over time, but why struggle for what could be years when you can have answers in hours or minutes? In this way, the Coaching Process is really a way to shorten the amount of time it takes to achieve your goals. It is also a way to stop going around in circles and make some decisions and commitments. If you’re ready to discover your own unique answers to your career challenges, In the Zone Executive Coaching will work for you.
How long does the Coaching Process take?
First, we determine the barriers in the way of achieving your goals and create strategies to address those barriers. We talk as often as needed to define and implement the new strategies (usually weekly). The initial coaching phase is 3-4 months (10 hours) which is plenty of time to make substantial progress toward getting you to the next level. We can then create a follow-up program that will best fit your situation.
What do you get?
ZEC participants will get a combination of the following benefits depending on their needs and objectives:
- Increased awareness of your strengths and how to use them to your best advantage.
- Increased ability to make more of the right choices and reach goals more quickly.
- Increased confidence to “be yourself” and trust your instincts.
- Increased ability to roll with life’s “up’s and down’s” resulting in greater happiness and peace of mind.
- Increased sense of satisfaction and self-fulfillment from your work.
- Increased effectiveness in your work which results in more income.
How fast do you see results?
As mentioned above, you will see results immediately. The first step of behavior change is becoming aware of your automatic responses to a variety of situations. Once you are more aware of the choices you are consciously or unconsciously making, we can then experiment with new options in order to find the approach that will work best for you. Experience is the best teacher. Together, we create different approaches that you are willing to try, then we keep the ones you like, discard the others.
How do you get started?
You and I have a conversation to discuss what you want to accomplish and confirm that we are a good match for a coaching project. I tell potential clients if it feels intuitively right to move forward, trust that the program will work for you. If it doesn’t feel right for any reason, we may not be the right match at this time. There is no charge for this initial exploratory conversation. And, remember, I am a champion of the low-key approach to sales and self-promotion, so no high-pressure nonsense from me! Let's talk...
When you are ready to explore the options, my direct line is 719-789-1349 Mountain Time USA, with 24-hour voice mail. My email is info@CoachSidWalker.com
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Below is a repeat of the list of skills that can be developed from the ZEC program located at the bottom right of the home page titled: What You Will Learn…
Learn these skills for a powerful competitive edge…
- Increase your personal magnetism and charisma to be more persuasive, more influential, and more inspirational both in person and in front of groups.
- Access increased intelligence, fearlessness, and a brilliant sense of timing by learning to get in the Zone. Operating in the Zone gives you more physical energy, mental clarity, an increased capacity to find the best solutions, greater peace of mind and increased overall confidence.
- Develop the ability to get back in the Zone on command, when you lose your edge and drift back into old habits.
- Learn simple and proven strategies for overcoming negativity (inner critic) and other barriers to peak performance including: fear, doubt, worry, angst, anxiety, and negative visions. Who would you be with no negativity?
- Make more of the right decisions with less information by gaining greater access to your intuitive instincts. The intuitive part of your brain is thousands of times smarter and faster than your intellect! It also helps avoid costly mistakes! We have to learn to listen to the smartest part of the brain and then learn to trust it and take action on its guidance.
- Leverage yours kill set by building on your strengths. Learn how to maximize your personal style, natural abilities, and values to increase your influence and productivity.
- Fine tune your ability to enroll people in your visions and get those people backing you and your team to win.
- Fine tune your selling skills based on helping others get what they want rather than trying to talk people into things. I have helped create some of the biggest sales producers in the financial services industry (many are introverts) by teaching them to be better interviewers. I have proven beyond any doubt that you don’t have to use sales techniques to make huge sales.
- Learn the coaching secrets that will empower your team to be at their best and to be highly motivated to get your projects over the finish line.
- Learn a simple, proven formula (Fortune 100 tested) for bringing your visions into reality, both business and personal.
- How to become unstoppable, with the universe behind your success, cheering you on to victory. Doesn’t that sound like more fun?